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Ectomycorrhizal fungi rewire plant-fungal molecular networks to enhance plant resilience under heavy metal stress
Abstract Mycorrhizal fungi play crucial roles in enhancing plant adaptation to heavy metal (HM) stress by interacting with host plants and other root microbiota, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying these interactions remain unclear. To elucidate how ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) mediate molecular dialogue between root-associated fungi and host plants under HM stress, we employed root metatranscriptomic analyses on a Pinus-Suillus system across a gradient of soil HM contamination.
Phenogenomics reveals the ecology and evolution of Trichoderma fungi for sustainable agriculture - Nature Microbiology
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Abstract Trichoderma fungi support sustainable agriculture by suppressing plant diseases and improving crop performance. However, emerging pathogenicity of Trichoderma warrants further ecological and genetic characterization. Here we used machine learning to correlate genomic data from 37 Trichoderma strains with over 140 phenotypic traits, spanning metabolic versatility, biotic interactions, stress tolerance and reproductive strategies.
By Andrei S. Steindorff, Feng Cai, Mingyue Ding, Siqi Jiang, Lea Atanasova, Scott Baker, Gunseli Bayram Akcapinar, Daren W. Brown, Priscila Chaverri, Peijie Chen, Chris Daum, Elodie Drula, Mukesh Dubey, Daniel Flatschacher, Thomas Ebner, Tamás Emri, Renwei Gao, Bernard Henrissat, Rosa Hermosa, Alfredo Herrera-Estrella, Wolfgang Hinterdobler, Philipp Kainz, Magnus Karlsson, László Kredics, Christian P. Kubicek, Alan Kuo, Kurt LaButti, Anna Lipzen, Matteo Lorito, Robert L. Mach, Gelsomina Manganiello, Tamás Marik, Michael Mayrhofer-Reinhartshuber, Márton Miskei, Stephen J. Mondo, Enrique Monte, Vivian Ng, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Mao Peng, Edoardo Piombo, István Pócsi, Sumitha K. Reddy, Robert Lee Riley, Sabrina Sarrocco, Matthias Schmal, Sheridan L. Woo, Susanne Zeilinger, Christian Zimmermann, Adrian C. Tsang, Ronald de Vries, Igor V. Grigoriev, Irina S. Druzhinina, Jomal Rodrigues Barbosa-Filho, Komal Chenthamara, Mikael Brandström Durling, Raphaela Castro Georg, Natalia Martinez-Reyes, Marie-Claude Moisan, Mohammad Javad Rahimi, Monika Schmoll, Oded Yarden, Ekaterina Shelest, Randy Berka
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The protist Aurantiochytrium has universal subtelomeric rDNAs and is a host for mirusviruses
Comparative genomics of Mollicutes-related endobacteria supports a late invasion into Mucoromycota fungi - Communications Biology
Abstract Diverse members of early-diverging Mucoromycota, including mycorrhizal taxa and soil-associated Mortierellaceae, are known to harbor Mollicutes-related endobacteria (MRE). It has been hypothesized that MRE were acquired by a common ancestor and transmitted vertically. Alternatively, MRE endosymbionts could have invaded after the divergence of Mucoromycota lineages and subsequently spread to new hosts horizontally.
Pezizomycetes genomes reveal the molecular basis of ectomycorrhizal truffle lifestyle
1. Tedersoo, L., May, T. W. & Smith, M. E. Ectomycorrhizal lifestyle in fungi: global diversity, distribution, and evolution of phylogenetic lineages. Mycorrhiza 20, 217–263 (2010). 2. Bonito, G. et al. Historical biogeography and diversification of truffles in the Tuberaceae and their newly identified Southern Hemisphere sister lineage. PLoS ONE 8, e52765 (2013). 3. Mello, A., Murat, C. & Bonfante, P. Truffles: much more than a prized and local fungal delicacy. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 260, 1–8 (2006). 4.
Expansion of Signal Transduction Pathways in Fungi by Extensive Genome Duplication
Plants and fungi use light and other signals to regulate development, growth, and metabolism. The fruiting bodies of the fungus Phycomyces blakesleeanus are single cells that react to environmental cues, including light, but the mechanisms are largely unknown [ 1 ]. The related fungus Mucor circinelloides is an opportunistic human pathogen that changes its mode of growth upon receipt of signals from the environment to facilitate pathogenesis [ 2 ].
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